THE NE.,W YORKER on, "Like the upper classes of IndIa, \\1110 are definitel} Aryans, their Lolor is 110t as fair as the North European people, but color alone does not de- termine race. None of their features are negroid." (An earlier defcnder, the vvriter of the Columbia State article in 1 928, had said, "'Their skin, though dark, is thin, showing a rosy tint in the cheeks of the young people. 'T'heir fe l- tures are decidedly Caucasian, their (lnkles and WI Ists slender, and their Ù1- steps arched. No flat feet, flat noses, thick lips, or curly hair arc found .-ln10ng then1.") 'Thc school-board lawyers dug up old census reports to how that some l""'urks were once Ested '1 "free colored per"ons," and at- tempted to show through an old will that the) were, as one deponènt put it "tainted with Negro blood." It was not just that the 'Turks were lccused of being Negroes. As the case progressed, they seemed to be put in the position of having to behave like Negroes. After the Supreme COUI t de- ,;cgregation decision of 1954, th eir suit bec.a111e increasingly similar to the kind of suit they would have joined their white neighbors in denouncing--thL kind of suit by which Negroes tried to "force their way into the schools." The 'T'urks wanted to be in the white schools because they were white. \Vhen the}' finally won, it didn't seem like a vic- tory. One of the 'Turks who instituted the suit told me that he thought it had probably cau"ed his people to think less of hIm, and th,lt he hds tried to avoid talking about the subject ever sÙlce. The Sumter lawyer who final1y won the decision-Ira Kaye, who is now with the Office of Econo111ic ()ppor- tunity in \Vashington-is one of the few outsiders who have ever amassed any trust among the Turks, but hi plans to push for changes in hirth cer- tificate,; dnd investigc:ttions of job dis- crimination were not pursued by his clients after he left SU111ter. The Turks are happy to have their children in the white school, but would just ,1S soon forget how the) got there. T HE area where the TUI ks have always lived, between l)alzell dnd Stateburg, is stiH rULll in SOll1C ways. I""'here are country churches, stores with gas pumps outside of them, farms planted in soybeans and pean uts and cotton, and even an old plantation house or two. But d lot of the land be- tween Dalzell and Stateburg IS now within the fence that surrounds Shaw Air F"'orce Base, and that fence is it- self surrounded by trailer calnp and beer joints, strung along Eke an outer 107 (.t1 dvertise1l1ent) G-AN\8LJN CASINO -t o "'"' f .... -- tor" 'ì> -.m A title on the door. . . rates a Bigelow on the floor. The odds are that a plush Bigelow on the floor can put you ahead of the game. You'll hold all the cards since Bigelows come in special designs, colors and textures that'll put you in the chips in the decor department. Send for our free color brochure on commercIal carpets Write to Bigelow-Sanford, Inc., Dept. B, 140 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y 10016. You can bet that people who know... buy BIGELOW. * /"' V Þ: ,..N! 0< " r. < ) rOO . ? v , . a.. . I ' w { ti I t . ( ",,*, .. h"" y U ) '-( . ::. '\:JJ. .<j 1 - v .< . f ^m<"t r- ;:ì) -,- ' ._. .... \. .......:. . J 1 CÇ: !fie neuJ edition 0/ de f!ð .s#Ikm 0/ oIIecto1<J' CC þeJenlJ than 500 0/ fffu+ if mod k . 1.1.00. : . : r- -------- 7FJ { - l! 303 MILLI"'G ROAD. HOLLAND, MICHI&AN 49423 ; NEW YORK · CHICAGO" LOS ANGELES · PHILADELPHIA. CLEVELAND SAN FRANCISCO · ST LOUIS · DALLAS. ATLANTA" GRAND RAPIDS ,..J a -' {t&A ^ ) r '{